desaturate

To get the blue black & whitish feeling, don't use "desaturate".

VintFalken.com 2009

So I set it aside for a few months, long enough to desaturate my brain.

Feeling a Draft Ulysses 2009

So I set it aside for a few months, long enough to desaturate my brain.

Archive 2009-04-01 Ulysses 2009

And also, with color, I wanted to give a sense of vibrance so it would look like it did to people who lived back then, as opposed to trying to approximate black & white or muddy the film or desaturate it.

Brad Balfour: Tom Cruise Stars in Valkyrie, And Illustrates That Slide Down the Slippery Slope to Fascism 2009

Certainly the old desaturate technique is pretty passe for good reason.

Make Better Black And White Conversions In Photoshop | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Did you process them a certain way to desaturate them or something?

NYC Christmas Day 3- December 25, 2009 « Classroom Confessions 2009

We have enzymes called desaturases that desaturate, i.e., add carbon-carbon double bonds, fats.

Changing dietary trends and the obesity epidemic | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

The fact when you desaturate it is actually WRONG.

Color Wheel Question James Gurney 2008

So Ally should use the greyscale conversion, not the desaturate command, to reveal true lightness relationships.

Color Wheel Question James Gurney 2008

It seems strange to me that nature made us so that we make saturated fats our own by eating too many carbs and then provided us with enzymes that desaturate them.

Changing dietary trends and the obesity epidemic | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008